Recent James Scholarship

It’s true that this page includes recent James scholarship, but it’s also meant to be a comprehensive bibliography on the Letter of James going back as far as possible. It’s obviously a work in progress. The same works are listed in alphabetical order on my James Bibliography page.

If you have other references not listed here, please feel free to give them to me in a comment. The most popular resources will not be included, but I would like to include as many graduate and postgraduate theses as possible. Most references pertain strictly to the Letter of James, but some are related more to James of Jerusalem or to other closely-related topics. I have focused mainly on English scholarship so far, but I’d like to include works in other research languages as well.

Please forgive the inconsistent style. It will eventually follow the Chicago Manual of Style (Turabian), but I have had to follow the LSA Stylesheet for my most recent study program, so some references are messed up. A big thanks to Jim Darlack at http://oldinthenew.org/ for helping me with quite a few of these resources.

Aymer, Margaret. 2011. “Alien(n)ation: Reading the Epistle of James through the Psychology of Migration.” Paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, London, July 2011.

Bruehler, Bart B. 2011. “Thoroughgoing Monotheism in the Quran and the Letter of James.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 2011.

Choi, Jin Young. 2011. “Tamez and James.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 2011.

Coker, Jason. 2011. “Wisdom Two Ways: Identifying the Imperial Presence in James 3:13-18.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 2011.

Kamell, Mariam. 2011. “The Prayer of Elijah in the Epistle of James.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 2011.

Streett, Daniel R. 2011. “Food, Fellowship and Favoritism: Early Christian Meals as the Setting for James 2:1–9.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 2011.

Syreeni, Kari. 2011. “Did Luke Know the Letter of James?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 2011.

deSilva, David A. 2010. “James and the Testament of Job: The Evidence for Intertextuality.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Atlanta, GA, November 2010.

Dickson, John Paul. 2010. “The Epistle of James as a “Source” for the Historical Jesus.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Atlanta, GA, November 2010.

Hartin, Patrick J. 2010. “Wholeness in James and the Q Source.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Atlanta, GA, November 2010.

Hultin, Jeremy. 2010. “James and the Abusive Tongue.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Atlanta, GA, November 2010.

Kaden, David A. 2010. “Stoicism, Social Stratification, and the Q Tradition in James: A Suggestion about James’ Audience.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Atlanta, GA, November 2010.

Kamell, Mariam J. 2010. “The Soteriology of James in Light of Earlier Jewish Wisdom Literature and the Gospel of Matthew.” Ph.D. thesis. St Andrews, Scotland: University of St Andrews.

Luomanen, Petri. 2010. “Jesus’ appearance to James the Just.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Atlanta, GA, November 2010.

Martens, Paul. 2010. “Grace in Creation: Kierkegaard on James 1:18 and the Condition for Receiving Gods Gifts.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Atlanta, GA, November 2010.

Purkarthofer, Richard B. 2010. “Kierkegaard’s First Love: On the Role of the Epistle of James in Kierkegaard’s Authorship.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; Atlanta, GA, November 2010.

2009

Baker, William. 2009. “Global Christianity and the Gospel According to James.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society; New Orleans, LA, November 18.

Batten, Alicia J. 2009. What Are They Saying About the Letter of James? New York: Paulist Press.

Coker, Jason. 2009. “(Sub)alternative: The Subaltern Identities of James and Paul in the Roman Empire.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA, November 22.

Hartin, Patrick J. 2009. “Ethos and Ethics of the Didache: Affinity with Other Early Jesus Groups within Judaism?” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA, November 21.

Konradt, Matthias. 2009. “The Historical Context of the Letter of James in Light of its Traditio-Historical Relations with First Peter.” In Catholic Epistles and Apostolic Tradition. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 101-25.

Lim, Do-Kyun. 2009. “Rhetoric Sensitive Sermon in the Epistle of James: Revitalizing Biblical Rhetorical Effects from James’ Protreptic Epistle.”Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society; New Orleans, LA, November 18 (also presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA, November 22).

Whitlark, Jason. 2009. “Emphutos Logos: A New Covenant Motif in the Letter of James.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA, November 22.

Young, Stephen. 2009. “A Kind of Judean Specialist: Theorizing a Redescription of the Religiosity of James the Brother of Jesus.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA, November 22.

Chandler, Christopher N. 2008. “Jesus and James on Justice in the Courts: A Reconsideration of the Ward/Allison Proposal.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, November 22.

Theophilos, Michael. 2008. “A New Fragment on James from Oxyrhynchus.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, November 22-23.

Vearncombe, Erin. 2008. “Ill-Skilled Postmen and the Addressees of James: The Socio-rhetorical Function of the Prescript of James.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; Boston, MA, November 22.

Coker, R. Jason. 2007. “Nativism in James 2:14-26: A Post-Colonial Reading?” In Reading James with New Eyes. Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James, ed. by Robert L. Webb and John S. Kloppenborg, 27-48. LNTS 342. London: T&T Clark.

_______. 2007. “The Emulation of the Jesus Tradition in the Letter of James,” in Reading James With New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James, ed Robert L. Webb and John S. Kloppenborg, 121-50. Library of New Testament Studies 342.

_______. 2007. “Judaeans or Judean Christians in James.” In Identity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others,ed. Philip Harland and Zeba A. Crook, 113-135. London and New York: Sheffield Phoenix.

_______. 2007. “‘Unstained by the World’: Purity and Pollution as an Indicator of Cultural Interaction in the Epistle of James.” In Reading James with New Eyes, ed. Robert L. Webb and John S. Kloppenborg, 49-74. London: T&T Clark.

Meier, John P. 2007. “Did the Historical Jesus Prohibit All Oaths? Part 1.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 5: 175-204.

Mitchell, M. M. 2007. “The Letter of James as a Document of Paulinism?” in Reading James With New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James, ed Robert L. Webb and John S. Kloppenborg, 75-98. Library of New Testament Studies, vol. 342.

Morgan, Chris. 2007. “The Doctrine of God in the Epistle of James.” Paper presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 14, San Diego, CA.

Myllykoski, Matti. 2007. “James the Just in History and Tradition: Perspectives of Past and Present Scholarship (Part II).” Currents in Biblical Research, 6:11-98.

Nienhuis, David R. 2007. Not By Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and Christian Canon. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.

Abegg, Martin G., Jr. 2006. “Paul and James on the Law in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls.” In Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. John J. Collins and Craig A. Evans, 63-74. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

_______. 2005. “James, Peter, Paul, and the Formation of the Gospels.” In The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul: Tensions in Early Christianity, ed. Bruce Chilton and Craig Evans, 3-28. Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 115. Leiden: Brill.

Kloppenborg, John S. 2005. “Didache 1.1-6.1, James, and the Torah.” In Trajectories Through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers,ed. Andrew Gregory and Christopher M. Tuckett, 193-221. Oxford: Oxford University.

_______. 2005. “Reception and Emulation of the Jesus Tradition in James.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 19-22, Philadelphia, PA.

Lockett, Darian R. 2005. “The Spectrum of Wisdom and Eschatology in the Epistle of James and 4QInstruction,” Tyndale Bulletin 56: 131-148.

_______. 2005. “‘Pure and Undefiled Religion’: Purity and Pollution as a Means of Cultural Antagonism in the Epistle of James.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 19-22, Philadelphia, PA.

Niebuhr, Karl-Wilhelm. 2005. “A Letter from Jerusalem: James in the Mind of the Recipients of His Epistle.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 19-22, Philadelphia, PA.

Neusner, Jacob. 2005. “Sin, Repentance, Atonement, and Resurrection: The Perspective of Rabbinic Theology on the Views of James 1-2 and Paul in Romans 3-4.” In Chilton and Evans, 409-34.

Painter, John. 2005. “The Power of Words: Rhetoric in James and Paul.” In Chilton and Evans, 235-73.

Wachob, Wesley Hiram. 2005. “The Languages of ‘Household’ and ‘Kingdom’ in the Epistle of James: A Socio-Rhetorical Study.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 19-22, Philadelphia, PA.

Watson, Duane F. 2005. “A Reassessment of the Rhetoric of the Epistle of James and Its Implications for Christian Origins.” Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 19-22, Philadelphia, PA.

Instone-Brewer, David. 2004. “James as a Sermon on the Trials of Abraham.” In The New Testament in Its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B. W. Winter on His 65th Birthday, 250-68. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Mink, Gerd. 2004. “Problems of a Highly Contaminated Tradition: The New Testament-Stemmata of Variants as a Source of a Genealogy for Witnesses.” In Studies in Stemmatology II, ed. by Pieter van Reenen, August den Hollander, and Margot van Mulken, 13-85. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Spencer, Matthew, Klaus Wachtel and Christopher J. Howe. 2004. “Representing Multiple Pathways of Textual Flow in the Greek Manuscripts of the Letter of James Using Reduced Median Networks.” Computers and the Humanities 38:1-14.

Wachtel, Klaus. 2004. “Kinds of Variants in the Manuscript Tradition of the Greek New Testament.” In Studies in Stemmatology II, ed. by Pieter van Reenen, August den Hollander, and Margot van Mulken, 87-98. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Wall, Robert W. 2004. “A Unifying Theology of the Catholic Epistles: A Canonical Approach.” In The Catholic Epistles and the Tradition, ed. J. Schlosser, 43-71. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press.

Yates, Jonathan P. 2004. “The Reception of the Epistle of James in the Latin West: Did Athanasius Play a Role?” In Schlosser, 273-88.

2003

Aune, David E. 2003. “Letter of James.” In The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament & Early Christian Literature & Rhetoric, 238-41. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox.

Parker, David C. 2002. “The Development of the Critical Text of the Epistle of James: From Lachmann to the Editio Critica Maior.” In New Testament Textual Criticism and Exegesis: Festschrift J. Delobel, ed. A. Denaux, 317-30. Leuven: Peeters.

Robbins, Vernon K. 2002. “A Comparison of Mishnah Gittin 1:1-2:2 and James 2:1-13 from a Perspective of Greco-Roman Rhetorical Elaboration.” In Jack N. Lightstone, Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild: A Socio-Rhetorical Approach. Studies in Christianity and Judaism 11. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion: 201-216.

Verseput, Donald J. 2001. “Plutarch of Chaeronea and the Epistle of James on Communal Behavior.” New Testament Studies, 47:502-18.

2000

Ådna, Jostein. 2000. “James’ Position at the Summit Meeting of the Apostles and the Elders in Jerusalem (Acts 15).” In The Mission of the Early Church to Jews and Gentiles, ed. J. Ådna and H. Kvalbein; WUNT 127; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 125-61.

Akin, Daniel. 2000. “Sermon: The Power of the Tongue-James 3:1-12.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, 4:66-74.

Bockmuehl, M. 1999. “Antioch and James the Just.” Pages 155-98 in James the Just and Christian Origins. Ed. by B. Chilton and C. A Evans. Leiden: Brill.

Cargal, Timothy B. 1999. “James.” In Full Life Bible Commentary to the New Testament, 1401-29. Ed. by French L. Arrington and Roger Stronstad. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Chilton, B., and C. Evans. 1999. James the Just and Christian Origins. Leiden: Brill.

Cummins, Tony. 1999. “Orality and Embodiment: The Presence of Jesus in the Letter of James.” Paper presented at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting (May 2000), Edmonton, and at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (November 1999), Boston, MA.

Scott, J. Julius, Jr. 1999. “Commas and the Christology of the Epistle of James.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Danvers, MA.

1998

Borgman, Paul. 1998. “Abraham and Sarah: Literary Text and the Rhetorics of Reflection.” In The Function of Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Tradition, ed. Craig A. Evans and James A. Sanders, 45-77. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, no. 154. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

Bottini, Claudio. 1998. “Letter of James (1): Content and the Theological Message of the Letter of James.” Essay prepared by the faculty of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem.

Bottini, Claudio. 1998. “Letter of James (2): The Moral Message of the Letter of James.” Essay prepared by the faculty of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem.

Bottini, Claudio. 1998. “Letter of James (3): Confession of Sins and Intercession (I).” Essay prepared by the faculty of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem.

Bottini, Claudio. 1998. “Letter of James (4): Confession of Sins and Intercession (II).” Essay prepared by the faculty of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem.

Chester, Andrew. 1998. “Messianism, Torah and Early Christian Tradition.” In Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity, ed. Graham N. Stanton and Guy G. Stroumsa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ó Fearghail, Fearghus. 1996. “On the Literary Structure of the Letter of James.” Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association, 19:66-83.

Ong, S. H. 1996. A Strategy for a Metaphorical Reading of the Epistle of James. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Penner, Todd C. 1996. The Epistle of James and Eschatology: Re-reading an Ancient Christian Letter. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, no. 121. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

Bauckham, Richard. 1995. “James and the Jerusalem Church.” In The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting, ed. R. Bauckham; vol. 2 of The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting; ed. Bruce W. Winter; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 415-80.

________. 1995. “James at the Centre.” EPTA Bulletin: The Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association, 14:23-33.

Johnson, Luke Timothy. 1995. The Letter of James: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. The Anchor Bible, vol. 37A. New York: Doubleday.

________. 1995. “The Social World of James: Literary Analysis and Historical Reconstruction.” In The Social World of the First Christians: Essays in Honor of Wayne A. Meeks, ed. L. M. White and O. L. Yarbrough, 178-97. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. Alsoin Brother of Jesus, Friend of God, 101-22. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans (2004).

Johnson, Luke Timothy. 1985. “Friendship with the World and Friendship with God: A Study of Discipleship in James.” In Discipleship in the New Testament, ed. F. Segovia, 166-183. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

Webber, Martin I. 1985. “‘IAKOBOS O DIKAIOS: Origins, Literary Expression And Development Of Traditions About The Brother Of The Lord In Early Christianity (James).” Ph.D. diss., Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Theology.

Lorenzen, Thorwald. 1978. “Faith without Works does not count before God! James 2:14-26.” Expository Times, 89:231-35.

Martin, Ralph P. 1978. “The Life-Setting of the Epistle of James in the Light of Jewish History,” in Gary A. Tuttle, ed., Biblical and Near Eastern Studies: Essays in Honor of William Sanford LaSor, 97-103. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.

Martin, G. C. 1907. “The Epistle of James as a Storehouse of the Sayings of Jesus.” Pages 174-84 in The Expositor. Ed. by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, and James Moffatt. Seventh Series 3. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

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Thanks Jim! If you like it, it’s good enough for me. Eventually, I’d like to do more with this, like create links to online journal access or to Amazon.com, add bookcover pictures, and most importantly, to add annotations.

Forthcoming in the summer of 2009 from Baylor University Press is a collection of papers from the SNTS seminar I co-chaired with Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr (Jena) from 2000-2005 on “The Catholic Epistles and Apostolic Traditions.” This collection, edited by me and Niebuhr, will include a nice cache of papers around the theme, “The New Perspective on James”–the title of Niebuhr’s programmatic essay. The papers originally delivered in German are translated into English.

Have you ever considered about adding a little bit more than just your articles? I mean, what you say is important and all. However imagine if you added some great photos or videos to give your posts more, “pop”! Your content is excellent but with pics and video clips, this site could certainly be one of the greatest in its niche. Very good blog!